Posts Tagged ‘Windows’

The Core Group has launched Fitbit’s first smartwatch in South Africa. Fitbit Ionic, a cross-platform high-end smartwatch, is available immediately from a variety of retailers across South Africa at a Recommended Retail Price of R5499. Fitbit Ionic was...

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014, millions of South Africans will be heading to voting stations around the country to cast their votes. This act of nationalism has been made easier and less stressful thanks to the availability of the official IEC South Africa app,...

Technology giant Microsoft officially cut off any further support for their Windows XP operating system in April this year. IT News Africa posed a number of questions to Rotimi Olumide, Microsoft’s Sub-Saharan Africa Windows Lead on Windows XP, about the...

Cape Town developer Free Lives announced today that their title Broforce is now available on Steam Early Access. Steam is an international digital game store for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, and attracts millions of users a month. The title is being made...

With the world getting ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Friday, IT News Africa is taking a look at 10 apps available in the Windows Store. Whether it is an app for romantic quotes or booking a quick getaway, these apps will make Valentine’s day...

Windows Phone users on mobile operator Vodacom will now be able to purchase apps on the Windows Phone store, and charge it directly to the monthly Vodacom bill. “If you’re a Windows Phone Vodacom user, contract or prepaid, life has just became a whole lot...

Competing nations have started to arrive in St. Petersburg, Russia, as Microsoft’s bi-annual Imagine Cup officially kicks off today. The competition sees teams from different nations compete against each other in app development, program development and...

Microsoft has announced that Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky will be leaving the company and that Julie Larson-Green will be promoted to lead all Windows software and hardware engineering. Tami Reller retains her roles as chief financial...

As technology giant Microsoft readies itself for a number of major launches this year – including a new version of its Windows operating system – the company has unveiled a new corporate logo. It is the first time in nearly 25 years that Microsoft...

Software giant Microsoft is in the process of overhauling what seems to be the whole company and part of that strategy is to rebrand a number of products. Users of Microsoft’s operating systems will be familiar with built-in gaming titles like Minesweeper...

Microsoft announced quarterly revenue of $18.06 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, while operating income and loss per share for the quarter were $192 million and $0.06 per share. “We delivered record fourth quarter and annual revenue, and we’re...

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office. The next release features an intuitive design that works with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices, including tablets. The new Office is social...

Microsoft has unveiled its Surface tablet and company executives showed two versions of the Windows tablet to attendees at an event in Hollywood. Surface is designed to enable seamless transition between consumption and creation, without compromise....

Browser-maker Mozilla released a beta version of their app store for web-based apps. The Mozilla Marketplace has been designed so that users will be able to install applications for Windows, Mac, or Linux operating system just as they would do for normal...

After Google’s popular Chome browser was hacked by a Russian student, the multinational internet company frantically released an update to fix the security gap. It took them less than 24 hours to develop and send out the patch fixing the security loophole...

Google will have to cough up green after their Chrome browser was breached. A Russian student walked away with $60 000 after hacking Chrome from a fully-patched Windows 7 64-bit PC. This follows Google’s offer of prize money to anyone capable of...